Application Deadline: 1 June 2024. Applications are now open for the 2024 Africa Institute Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence Fellowship. The Africa Institute, as part of its African Languages and Translation …
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The Africa Institute Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence Fellowship 2022 for creative writers (45,000 AED grant & funded Residency in Sharjah, UAE)
by OFAby OFAApplication Deadline: February 28, 2022 The Africa Institute, as part of its African Languages and Translation Program, announces the Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence Fellowship. This residency program is created in …
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Call for ApplicationsSouth Africa
The Academic and Non-Fiction Authors’ Association of South Africa (ANFASA) Grant Scheme 2020 for Non-Fiction Writers
by OFAby OFAApplication Deadline: July 31st 2020 ANFASA, the Academic and Non-Fiction Authors’ Association of South Africa, announces the next round of the grant scheme to benefit authors of scholarly and of …
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Scholarships
Miles Morland Foundation 2017 Morland Writing Scholarships for African writers (£45,00 in Grants)
by OFAby OFAApplication Deadline: Tuesday 31st October 2017. The Miles Morland Foundation is pleased to announce that the 2017 Morland Writing Scholarships for African writers will open for entries on Friday 30th June. …
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Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarships 2016 for African Writers ( £45,000 Grant)
by OFAby OFAApplication Deadline: Monday 31st October 2016. It can be difficult for writers, before they become established, to write while simultaneously earning a living. To help meet this need the MMF awards annually …
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Mophradat Writing residency Program 2024 for writers from the Arab world (Fully Funded to Brussels, Belgium)
by OFAby OFAApplication Deadline: February 1, 2024 Mophradat is supporting emerging creative writers from the Arab world working in contemporary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Published writers currently working on a new text …
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Miles Morland Foundation 2023 Writing Scholarships for African writers (£18,000 in Scholarships)
by OFAby OFAApplication Deadline: 18th September, 2023 It can be difficult for writers, before they become established, to write while simultaneously earning a living. To help meet this need the MMF annually awards a small …
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Pulitzer Center Persephone Miel Fellowship 2022 for Media Professionals for developing countries ($5,000 grant)
by OFAby OFAApplication Deadline: April 24, 2022. The Persephone Miel Fellowship is designed to support journalists from outside the U.S. and Western Europe who are pursuing ambitious reporting projects and enable them …
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Culture Resource Production Awards Program 2022 for Artists and Writers from MENA Region.
by OFAby OFAApplication Deadline: 8 November 2021 The Culture Resource Production Awards program supports artists and writers from the Arab region, below the age of 35, by offering grants to enable them …
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Miles Morland Foundation 2021 Morland Writing Scholarships for African writers (£18,000 in Scholarships)
by OFAby OFAApplication Deadline: 18th September 2021 It can be difficult for writers, before they become established, to write while simultaneously earning a living. To help meet this need the MMF annually awards a …
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Call for ApplicationsRwanda
Goethe Institute writers’ Residency 2021 for young African Writers (Fully Funded to Kigali, Rwanda)
by OFAby OFAApplication Deadline: 16th May 2021 As a collaboration between Huza Press and the Goethe Institut Kigali, we are announcing a four-week writers’ residency in Kigali (Rwanda) in September 2021. The …
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Pulitzer Center Persephone Miel Fellowship 2021 for Media Professionals for developing countries ($5,000 grant)
by OFAby OFAApplication Deadline: April 23, 2021, at 11:59pm EST. The Persephone Miel Fellowship, overseen by the Pulitzer Center and launched in partnership with Internews, is designed to help journalists from outside …
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AlgeriaCall for ApplicationsEgyptMorocco
Between the Lines International Writing Program 2021 for young Aspiring Writers.
by OFAby OFAApplication Deadline:March 9, 2021. BTL: Peace and the Writing Experience will bring together 40 international and 10 U.S.-based students, ages 15-18, for two weeks of intensive BTL summer programming hosted …
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Call for Applications
Culture Resource Production Awards Program 2021 for Artists and Writers from MENA Region
by OFAby OFAApplication Deadline: October 30th 2020 The program supports artists and writers from the Arab region, below the age of 35, by offering grants to enable them to produce their first …
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Commonwealth Youth Correspondent Program 2020 for aspiring youth leaders & Writers
by OFAby OFAApplication Deadline:31 July 2020. Commonwealth Correspondents are aspiring youth leaders or talented writers who contribute their articles, photos and videos about local, national and international issues to the YourCommonwealth.org website …
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Miles Morland Foundation 2020 Morland Writing Scholarships for African writers (£18,000 in Scholarships)
by OFAby OFAApplication Deadline: 18th September 2020 It can be difficult for writers, before they become established, to write while simultaneously earning a living. To help meet this need the MMF annually awards a …
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Aga Khan University Media Innovation Center’s Accelerator Programme 2020 – USD 15,000 Startup grant
by OFAby OFAApplication Deadline: September 7th 2019 In an age where audiences are bombarded with infinite digital content, with which traditional media forms have to compete, journalism has no choice but to …
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Short Story Day Africa Prize 2019 for African Writers ($1,100 in Cash Prize)
by OFAby OFAApplication Deadline:31 October 2019 When Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, addressed the TED Conference in 2009, she spoke of the danger of the single story, a distorted, one-dimensional view of …
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The Goethe-Institut/ Bureau de liaison African Writer’s Residency Program 2019/2020 for young African Writers
by OFAby OFAApplication Deadline: Sunday, 7th July 2019 (23:59 GMT +0) The Goethe-Institut/ Bureau de liaison Ouagadougou is setting up a writer’s residency for young African writers (less than 40 years) in …
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Call for Ideas: 2019 Royal African Society’s Africa Writes for talented African Writers
by OFAby OFAApplication Deadline: Tuesday 6 November 2018 The Royal African Society’s annual celebration of contemporary literature from Africa and the diaspora returns! Established in 2012, Africa Writes is now the UK’s …
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Jan Michalski Foundation Residencies Program 2018 for writers (Fully Funded)
by OFAby OFAApplication Deadline: August 31st 2018 The Foundation features an original group of seven residential modules that are available to writers, translators, and other creative individuals for residencies of varying lengths. …
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Application Deadline: August 31st 2018 In 2018, Short Story Day Africa is seeking innovative short fiction set in the rooms, the passages, the bars and the lobbies of hotels across …
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Villa Karo Residency Scholarship Program 2018 for artists, writers and researchers in Benin Republic, West Africa (Funded)
by OFAby OFAApplication Deadline: March 15th 2018 A Villa Karo residency is suited for both individual research and artistic work, and carrying out for instance communal projects. The ideal situation is one …
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Call for ApplicationsJournalists
InfoNile Reporting Grant 2018 for Journalists & Freelancers (Funded)
by OFAby OFAApplication Deadline: 23rd February 2018: InfoNile invites freelancers and staff journalists in the Eastern Nile to submit proposals for in-depth investigative multimedia journalism and data visualization grants meant to support production …